The first one was so good. The sequel has dark souls 2 graphics but it doesnt improve on anything unlike dark souls 2. Every two minutes my party calls me gay. I cannot restart the game without spending real money. Theres no fast travel unless you spend real money on it. It crashes every five minutes. This game is horrible, legitimate contender for worst game of the year. Which is sad because a lot of work was put into it. Oh well, I guess gamers need to suffer and hexbear needs to gaslight me into buying this piece of shit.
The game isn't horrible (especially once you ignore the ridiculous and false claims people have made in regards to the games microtransactions like in the OP) but it's incredibly mediocre. It's a sequel to a decade old game that neither manages to improve on the originals strengths nor its flaws and ends up feeling incredible uninspiring and unexciting as a result.
Even a 5/10 is extremely bad in video games standards cause aren't nobody got time for that.